Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the golden ante-bellum chronicle of the G. O. P. there is one entry that will always be read with bitterness; the last minute defeat of Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. To those who watched President Wilson's actions with pale hostility the satisfaction always remained of believing that...
As the announcement of his resignation is made, his friends in Washington agree that Mr. Hughes has been "a great Secretary of State." He has smoothed out the internal organization of the Department; he triumphed at the Washington Limitation of Armament Conference; yet in a large sense his record has...
Once more the bitter truth is driver home that the American democracy has no room for intellectual giants. Idealists, geniuses; thinkers when placed in high office, are cramped and bound by an inelastic mass opinion. They may struggle, as Wilson and Hughes struggled, to escape this bond--without success. Charles...
¶New Year's morning, at eleven, there was a fanfare of trumpets. Military and naval aides advanced down the stairway. The President and Mrs. Coolidge followed and after them trooped Cabinet members and their ladies. In the Blue Room, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Mrs...
Secretary of State Hughes opened the meeting with an address on International Cooperation. Later, the members went to the White House to be addressed by the President. But the main business was the meeting of the several sections, devoted to their respective subjects, before which papers were read. The succeeding...